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Deprecating password authentication
Scheduled for Oct 28, 16:00 - 19:00 UTC
Scheduled
As mentioned in our developer guide, GitHub no longer supports basic authentication using a username and password. Instead, we recommend using personal access tokens or the web application flow.
Posted 23 days ago. Oct 05, 2020 - 08:00 UTC
This scheduled maintenance affects: API Requests.